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There has been increasing interest in the risk of eating disorder symptomatology in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populations. These results call attention to lesbians as a generally understudied population. Results of path analyses indicated that the relationship between internalization and disordered eating differs for gay and heterosexual men but not for lesbian and heterosexual women. Correlation coefficients between body shape dissatisfaction and several aspects of mental distress were significantly larger for gay men than heterosexual men the same coefficients did not differ between lesbian women and heterosexual women. Compared to heterosexual women, lesbians reported increased drive for muscularity, lower self-esteem, and lower internalization however, they did not significantly differ on body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness or disordered eating. Gay men reported significantly more body dissatisfaction, internalization, eating disorder symptomatology, drive for thinness, and drive for muscularity than heterosexual men. The present data support several key trends in the literature: men generally reported less body dissatisfaction, internalization of socio-cultural standards of beauty, drive for thinness, and disordered eating, but a greater drive for muscularity than women results also indicated that different components of body image dissatisfaction and low self-esteem partially mediated the relationship between internalization and eating disorder symptomatology. The goals of the present study were to examine: (a) differences in sex and sexual orientation in internalization of societal pressure to modify physical appearance, components of body image dissatisfaction, self-esteem, and eating disorder symptomatology and (b) whether the internalization-eating disorder symptomatology was mediated by the different components of body image dissatisfaction and low self-esteem. There is increasing interest in understanding what role, if any, sex and sexual orientation play in body dissatisfaction, its correlates to distress, and its relationship to disordered eating. 5Department of Psychology, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.4Department of Counseling and Psychological Services, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, USA.
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3Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.2Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, USA.1Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.